The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-21 00:00:00

THE N AVAL ACTION BETWEEN THE AI AVAMA AND THE KEABSAGE, (From the Times Correspondent.) SOUTHAMPTON (Monday). The EngLish steam-yacht Deerhound, belonging to Mr. John Lancaster, of Hindley-hall, Wigan, Lancashire, arrived here last night and landed Cap. Lain Semmes (commander of the late Confederate steamer Alabama), 13 officers, and 26 men, whom she rescued from drowning after the action off Cher bourg yesterday, which resulted in the destruction of the world-renowned Alabama. From interviews held this morning with Mr. Lancaster, with Capt. Jones (master of the Deerhound), and with some of the Alabama's officers, and from information gleaned in other quarters, I am enabled to furnish you with some interesting particulars connected with the fight between the Alabama and the Kearsage. The Deerhound is a yacht of 190 tons and 70- horse power, and her owner is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes and of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. By a somewhat singular coincidence she was built by Messrs. Laird and Son, of Birken head, and proof of her fleetness is furnished by the fact that she steamed home from the scene of action yesterday at the rate of 13 knots an hour. On arriving at Cherbourg at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, by railway from Caen, Mr Lancaster was informed by the captain of his yacht, which was lying in harbour awaiting his arrival, that it was reported that the Alabama and the Kearsage were going out to fight each other in the morning. Mr Lancaster, whose wife, niece, and family were also on board his yacht, at once determined to go out in the morning and see the combat. The Alabama left Cherbourg harbour about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, and the Kearsage Wa s then several miles out to seaward, with her steam up ready tor action. The French plated ship of war Couronne followed the Alabama out of harbour and stopped when the vessels were a league off the coast, her object being to see that there was no vio lation of the law of nations by any fight taking place within the legal distance from land. The combat took place about nine miles from Cherbourg, and as there are some slight differences (as might naturally be expected under the circumstances) in relation to the period over which it lasted, and other matters, it may be well here to reproduce from Mr Lancaster's letter in the limes of this morning the subjoined extract from the log kept on board the Deerhound : Sunday, June 10, 9 a.m,—Got up steam and proceeded out of Cherbourg harbour. 10.30.—Observed the Alabama steaming out of the harbour towards the Federal steamer Kearsage. 11.10.—The Alabama commenced firing with her starboard battery, the distance between the contending vessels being about one mile. The Kearsage immediately replied with her starboard guns; a very sharp, spirited firing was then kept up, shot sometimes being varied by shells. In manoeuvring both vessels made seven com plete circles at a distance of from a quarter to half a mile. At 12 a slight intermission was observed in the Alabama's firing, the Alabama making head sail, and shaping her course for the land, distant about nine miles. At 12 30 observed the Alabama to be disabled and in a sinking state. We immediately made towards her, and on passing the Kearsage were requested to assist in saving the Alabama's crew. At 1.2 50, when within a distance of 200 yards, the Alabama sank. We then lowered our two boats and, with the assistance of the Alabama's whale boat and ditkgy, succeeded in saving about 40 men, including Cap tain Semmes and 13 officers. At 1 p.m. we steered for Southampton. One of the officers of the Alabama names the same hour—viz., 11 10, as the commencement of the action, and 12 40 as the period of its cessation, making its duration an hour and a ball . ; while the time observed on board the Deerhound, which is most likely to be accurate, that vessel being free from the excitement and confusion necessarily exist. ing on board the Alabama, limited the action to an hour, the last shot being fired at 12 10. The dis tance between the two contending vessels when the Alabama opened fire was estimated on board the Deerhound at about a mile, while the Alabama's officer tells me she was a mile• and a half away from the Kearsage when she fired the first shot. Be this as it may it is certain that the Alabama commenced the firing, and as it is known that her guns were pointed for a range of 2,000 yards, and that the second shot she firt.d, in about half a minute after the first, went right into the Kearssge, that may be taken as the real distance between the two ships. The firing became general from both vessels at the distance of a little under a mile, and was well sustained on both sides, Mr. Lancaster's impression being that at no time during the action were they lees than a quarter of a mile from each other Seven complete circles were made in the period over which the fight lasted. It W 39 estimated on boatel the Deerhound that the Alabama fired in all about 150 rounds, some single guns, and some in broadsides of three or four, and the Kearsage about 100, the majority of which were 11-inch shells. Th© Alabama's were principally Blakeley's pivot guns. In the early part of the action the relative firing was.about three from the Alabama to one from the Kearsage, but as it pro gressed the latter gained the advantage, having apparently a much greater power of steam. She appeared to have an advantage over the Alabama of about three knots an hour, and steam was seen rushing out of her blowpipe all through the action, while the Alabama seemed to have very little steam on. At length the Alabama's rudder was disabled by one of her opponent's heavy shells, and they hoisted sails; but it was soon reported to Captain Semmes by ono of his officers that his ship was sinking. With great bravery the guns were kept ported till the muzzles were actually under water, and the last shot from the doomed ship was fired as ehe was settling down. When her stern was completely under water Captain Semmes gave orders for the men to save themselves as best they could, and every one jumped into the sea and swam to the boats which h c d put off to their rescue. Those of them who were wounded were ordered by Captain Semmes to be placed in the Alabama's boats and taken on board the Kearsage, which was as far as possible obeyed. Captain Semmes and those above-menti one d were saved in the Deerhound's boats , and Wh en i t was ascertained that the water was clear of every one that had life left, and that no more help could b e rendered, the y ac ht s t ea med away for Cowes, and thence to this port. The lisarsoie, it is known, has for some time past been in hot pursuit of the Alubania, which vessel Captain Winslow was determined to follow everywhere till he overtook his enemy. Very recently sh 6 chased and came up with one of the vessels of the Chinese expeditionary force re turning to England, and ran alongside with her guns pointed and crew at quarters before she could be convinced of her mistake, for the expeditionary vessel was very like the celebrated Confederate cruiser. The Kearsage was then described as likely to prove a formidable overmatch for the Alabama, having higher steam power end rate of speed, a crew "nearly double" that under Captain Semmes, and, unlike her sister ship the Tascarora, carrying 10, instead of eight, very heavy 11-inch shell guns —the so-called Columbiads of the American navy. The Alabama, on the contrary, is stated to have had Only two heavy rifled guns and six broadside 32- pounders. The Confederate, too, after her long cruise, was sore!y in need of a refit. Part of her copper, it ia said, was off, and her bottom was co vz•.rcti with long Weeds. The crew of the Ala'oaml comprised in all about 150 when she left Cherbourg. Of these 10 or 12 were killed during the action, and a number were known to be drowned. the difference between these and the number brought home by the Deerhound bJrg, it is hoped, saved by the boats of the Kear sage, or some French pilot boats which were in the vicinity. The French war vessel Couronne did not come out beyond three miles. The surgeon of the Alabama was an Englishman, and, as nothin g h as been heard of him since be went below to dress the wounds of some of the sufferers, it is feared that he went down with the ship. The wounded men on board the Deerhound were carefully attended to until her arrival here, when V:ey were token to the Sailors' Home, in the Canute-road. "Several of the men are more or less scarred, but they are all out about the town to-daY, and the only noticeable case is that of a man who was wounded in the groio, and that but sightly. Captain Semmes, and is first-lien'enant, Mr. J. :Kill, are staying at li"....slway's in Quen's- terrace, where the gallant commander is under the care of Dr. Ware, a medical gentleman of this town, his right hand. being slightly splintered by a shell. When the men came on board the Deerhound they had nothing on but their drawers and shirts, having been stripped to fight, and one of the tren, with a sailor's devotedness, insisted on seeing his captain, who was then lying in Mr. Lancaster's cabin in a very exhausted state, as he had been intrusted by Captain Semmes with the ship's papers, and to no one else would he give them up. The men were all very anxious about their captain, and were rejoiced to find that he had been saved. They appeared to be a set of first-rate fellows, and to act well together in perfect union under the most trying circum• stances. The captain of the forecastle on board the Ala bama, a Norwegian, says that when he was in the water he was hailed by a boat from the Kearsage, " Come here, old man, and we'll save you ;" to which he replied, "Never mind me, I can keep up half an hour yet; look after some who are nearer drowning than I am." He then made away for the Deerhound, thanking God that he was under English colours. Throughout the action the Deerhound kept about a mile to windward of the combatants, and was en abled to -witness the whole of it, The Kearsage was ' burning Newcastle coals, and the Alabama Welsh coals, the difference in the smoke (the north country I coal yielding so much more) enabling the moves ments of each ship to be distinctly traced. Mr. Lancaster is clearly of opinion that it was the Kear sage's 11-inch shells which gave her the advan ' tage, and that, after what he has witnessed on this occasion, wooden ships stand no chance whatever against shells. Both vessels fired well into each other's hull, and the yards and masts were not much damaged. The mainmast of the Alabama had been sl;ruck by shot, and as the vessel was sink ing broke off and fell into the sea, throwing some men who were in the maintop into the water. Some tremendous gaps were visible in the bulwarks of the Kearsage, and it was believed that some of her boats were disabled. She appeared to be temporaiily plated with iron chains, &e. As far as could be seen everything appeared to be well planned and ready on board the Kearsage for the action. It was apps• rent that Captain Semmes intended to fight at a I long range, and the fact that the Kearsage did not reply till the two vessels got nearer together showed that they preferred the short range, and the supe rior steaming power of the latter enabled this to be accomplished. It is remarkable that no attempt was made by the Kearsage to c►ose and board the Alabama, and when the Aiabama hoisted sails and made as if for the shore the Kearsage moved away in another direction, as though her rudder or screw was damaged and out of control. Great pluck was shown on both sides during the action. On board the Alabama all the hammocks were let loose, and arrangements had been made for sinking her rather than she should be captured. As far us is known, not a relic of the Alabama is in the possession of her successful rival. When she was sinking Capt. Semmes dropped his own sword into the sea to prevent the possibility of its getting into their hands, and the gunner made a hole in one of the Alabama's boats and sank her for the same reason. Before leaving the Deerhound Capt. Semmes pre. sented to MrLancaster's son one of his officer's swords and a pistol in remembrance of the occurrence and the kind treatment he and his men had received on board the yacht. Tae men stated that the best practice generally on board the Alabama during the action was shown by the gunners who bad been trained on board the Excellent in Portsmouth har bour. The spectacle presented daring the combat is de scribed by those who witnessed it from the Deer hound as magnificent, and thus the extraordinary career of the Alabama has come to a grand and appropriate termination. The presence of the Deerhound on the scene was a providential circumstance, as in all probability the men saved by her would otherwise have been drowned, and a lamentable addition would thus have been made to the number of lives lost on the occasion. Nothing is known here respecting the Kearsage or her subsequent movements. She was in command of Captain John Winslow, and had about the same number of officers and crew as the Alabama. The last official American navy list describes her es 1,031 tons register, and carrying eight guns, being two guns less than the Tuscarora mounts, to which in all other respects the Kearsage is a sister ship. The Tuscarora will be remembered as the Federal ships of war that some two years and a half ago lay at this port watching the Nashville. Several of the Alabama's officers row here were attached to the Nashville on that occasion. The Alabama's chronometers, specie, and all the bills of ransomed vessels are saved, having been handed over to a gentleman at Cherbourg before she left that port. Mr. Mason , the Confederate agent, Capt. Bullock, and the Rev. Mr. fremlett arrived by the four o'clock train this afternoon from London, and pro ceeded to Kelway's Hotel to meet Capt. Semmes. Captain Semmes and all the men are now placed under the care of Mr. J. Wiblin for such medical attendance as may be required. The Presidential Contest in America. BALTIMORE, June 6. An Englishman in New York, unless he be a lord or a Dissenting minister, with Republican "procli vities," and strong opinions on the subject of negro slavery, finds few friends. He is an alien, an enemy, a person ignorant of everything but the unimpor tant concerns of his own little island ; and one who is supposed on the stage, in the newspapers, and in such cultivated society as the pace affords to inva riably misplace his aspirates, and to call himself a " Hinglishman." It is very different in Baltimore. To be an Englishman is to be furnished with a perpetual passport to the good will and favour of everybody of any note in the place—except the military governor and his subordinates—who hold the city by the strong hand, and repress in every possible way the opinions and feelings of the inha bitants. The Baltimoreans are proud of their Eng lish descent, their English manners, their English h ospitality, and their English sympathies. If ever they have an ill word to say against England, it is because they are angry with the British Govern ment for not having recognised the independence of the South, and so expedited their own deliverance from the Northern Union. They take care, however, to distinguish between the people and the Govern ment in the blam e which they cast upo n L or d Rus sell and Lord Palmerston, and look forward to the day, long though it may be in coming, when the S mo ther country and her Southern children—more truly hers than the mixed breed of Europe that have peopled and overrun the North — shall be united, not alone in sympathy, but in c ommercial and poli tical In short, Baltim ore loves the Eng lish as much as New York hates th em, and hopes, when free trade with England shall foll ow the re cognition o f th e S o uth, to become one of the first commercial cities of the American continent, and to rival New York in influence and hospitality, Bal timore is as inimical to all that is Yankee as wond or Charleston, and were it not for the presence of a large military force, which is in possession of Fort I‘l'_Flenry, and could reduce the city to ashes in an hour, if it threatened to revolt against the depotism which it abhors, it would hoist the Con federate flag, and invite the Southern army to enter and hold it. Maryland, of which it is the pride and the emporium, has at this moment no less than 20,000 of her sons in the Southern army, fighting, without the induce men t o f b ounty money or a ny mercenary consideration whatever, for the cause of Southern Independence ; about double the number that she has raised for the Northern armies, not withstanding all the bounties offered by the Federal Government and the municipalities, and the sums contributed by the rich to avoid the risk of a con. seription. The 20,000 are for the most part natives of M aryland; the 8,000 or 10,000 in the Federal army are ma i nly Irish or Germane, with whom the bounty is everything and the cause nothing; together with negroes and the freed slaves of " dis. loyal" owners. The ladies of Baltimore, renowned as being the handsomest in America, a tradition of olden time, which the passing glance of the stranger THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1864. as he walks along the streets is sufficient to confirm, are even more "rebellious" than their fathers, brothers, husbands, or lovers, as ladies are wont to be in all parts of the world where the passions are excited by political strife. They have a habit in their pleasant climate of sitting after nightfall upon their "stoops," or marble door step, in preference to their drawing rooms, in the full, or it may the scanty, elegance of their evening costume, to gossip, or sing, or knit, by the light of the moon. And while, as now, a battle is supposed to be raging in their not very remote vicinity—a battle or series of battles which may decide the fate of North and South, and point the way that Maryland must ultimately go--and when, with a favourable wind, it may even be possible, in the silence of the night, to hear from afar the faint echoes of the artillery of the contending hosts, they gather in this primitive fashion, with more than the usual excitement of expectation, to keep up the rebellious spirit by the interchange of sentiment and the outpouring of their hopes and fears. Now and then may be heard, in defiance of the lazy, but perhaps the not altogether unsympathizing, police man who saunters along his beat through the fashionable quarters of the town, the melancholy chant of " Maryland, my Maryland," sung to the air of a German Burschenlied ; the livelier strain of the " Bonnie Blue Flag," or to English ears the nobler melody of " God save the South." Like the ladies of Scotland, commemorated in the ancient ballad, who sat with their " gold combs in their hair" and their fans in their hands, waiting for the return of Sir Patrick Spens, they sit upon their doorsteps waiting for General Lee, or any other Southern hero who will be good enough to take their city in his victorious march to Washington, and liberate them, once and for ever, from the dull, leaden, obdurate, relentless tyranny which General Butler inaugurated, General Schenck continued, and General Wallace perpetuates, These three attorneys, having nothing of the soldier about them but the uniform and the shoulder-straps, have severally and collectively managed to concentrate upon their heads an amount of feminine hate from Baltimore and all Maryland which, in default of historical record, will be sufficient to send down their names to a late posterity with as much odium as that which attaches to " old Bogy" in all the nurseries of Europe. It is in a city with a character like this that the friends of Mr. Lincoln determined to hold the Con• vention to nominate him for a second term of office, and to this city I have come from New York to be present at the first process of the quadrennial manufacture, the ultimate result of which is a Pre sident of the United States. It is nos to be sup posed that in this respect Mr. Lincoln's friends run any risk of the expression of hostile opinions, or still less of an adverse decision on the part o, the people among whom they thrust the preten sions of their candidate. A convention is like a Parliament. No one has a right to speak, ex cept a member duly elected,: If the public be admitted to the deliberations, it is a matter of ex pediency and favour —not of right; and any objector or disturber may be summarily expelled. In Balti more, however, there is scarcely the risk of so much as a dissentient hiss or an ironical cheer. The native residents will not attend, even out of curiosity, and there is a sufficiently large population of placemen, contractors, officials, and persons who directly or indirectly are making money out of the war, as well as of Federal soldiers quartered in the neighbouting forts, to make it certain that the Convention will not lack an appreeietive audienee. Mr Lincoln's friends intended to forestall opposition in the Pre sidential contest by being first in the field, but they bad no sooner announced their time and place than the supporters of Gen. Fremont took what the Lin colnites call u " mean advantage," and summoned a Convention at Cleveland, in Ohio. Here they built their platform, called themselves by the new name of the" Radical Democracy," and unanimous nomi nated their candidate a full week before Mr Lincoln's friends could be brought together. The main planks of the platform do not, it is true, dovetail very squarely ; for a vigorous prosecution of the war and a vigorous preservation of the liberties of the people nre more incompatible than Americans understand, or care to acknowledge ; they may serve, however, to elect a candidate upon,and, if so 7 they will abswer their purpose. But the Cleveland Convention, dis agreeable es it has proved to Mr Lincoln, is not the only affliction of the kind he will have to endure. The supporters of a an opposition candidate—but whether it be Gen. Fremont, or Mr Chase, or a greater or less than either whose name is yet to be divulged—resolved to forestall him even in Balti more, and several days ago engaged the large hall of the Maryland Institute for this evening (the 6th), paying the price demanded in advance. So quietly was the matter managed that when on Friday last Mr. Lincoln's " wire pullers" made ap plication for the hall, expecting no difficulty, they found to their chagrin that it was pre-engaged, and that the Lincoln Convention ran the risk of being houseless and homeless. In this emergency they made application for the Front-street Theatre, which is capable of accommodating from 3,000 to 4,000 persons, and succeeded in obtaining it. At the time at which I write no one seems able to pene trate the mystery of to-night's Convention, and as this letter must be posted before the proceedings commence, the mystery must, as far as I am con cerned, remain unsolved until my next. The con sequence of this unusual state of affairs is that Bal timore swarms, not alone with delegates to the two Conventions, hut with " wire pullers," "log rollers," " axe grinders," and other trading and professional politicians, who have a purpose to serve by the suc cess of one or other of the candidates. Hotel or boarding house accommodation is difficult to be ob tained, except by those who took the precaution to bespeak beds a week ago, and the price of board and lodging has been raised about 500 per cent. by the hotel keepers, by whom a Convention is consi dered their harvest and opportunity ; during the existence of which such a thing as a conscience is not thought of, however suggestively it may prick, and when such a word as extortion is banished alike from memory and the dictionary. Baltimore, however, is much too near the seat of war to be wholly engrossed with the contest for the Presidency, and feeds itself upon rumours, true and false, from the armies of Grant and Lee. Every hour produces a new story, which the next hour neither confirms nor disproves—stories tinged, if not wholly invented by the wishes of the story tellers, and which much oftener speak of disasters than of victories to the Federal cause. Froin General Grant's despatches to Mr. Stanton—of which the War Secretary only publishes such por tions as are favourable to the Federal army, or serve to keep up the spirits of the Northern people— it is evident that no general action had taken place up to Saturday, the 4th, and equally evident that such action was imminent from hour to hour, And , at a time like this, when every man is of value, it seems strange and unpatriotic —at least to an Eng lishman's eyes—that whole regiments of hardy veterans should leave the front to return to their homes, and wash their hands of the war and of all that belongs to it. Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, while the bells were ringing for afternoon service, the sound of the drum and fife, followed by the air of the' Star Spangled Banner," played by a full military band, was heard in the street. Opening the window and looking out upon Monument-square, I find the place full of soldiers. Thinking it was a reinforcement .for General Grant, I descended into the square and mixed with the crowd of spectators. I soon l earnt that these hardy, sun-browned, and dirty-l oo ki ng veterans were the Pennsylvania re serves, who were not rushing to the battlefield to crush the retellion,but rushing from it, because their time had expired. Their numbers were said to be upwards of 4,000, though it afterwards appeared that they were less than 2,000 ; that they formed the sole remnants of 12 regiments, originally of the aAmytnavven M'Clellan, Pope, full complement of 1,200 men each, or 14,400 in all; that they had enlisted f or three years in the first flush of the excitement that f o ll owed the Confede rate all attachthe battleso Burnside, and Hooker; that they h a d crossed the Rapidan with General Graut,fought und er hi s or d ers nFor oft S er At the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court-house, marched with him in his long and dangerous circuit from Spottyslvania to tbe Chickgbominy, and that !their time having expired some days previously, they had left his army on the I s t o f J une and marched two days from the front to the White-house, whence they were conveyed in steam transports to Wash ington, and thence again by rail to this city, on their way home. Their battered banners, as well as their tattered clothes, bore witness to the work they had performed, and the hard service they had undergone, and as they Marched through the crowded streets it Was impassible not to admit that 20,000 new recruits, even if not composed of Irish and German mercenaries, could not make amends to General Grant for the loss of 2,000 such fine fellows as these, seasoned to war, inured to hard ships, and who had, moreover, the additional merit of having enlisted for pure love of the cause, at a time when bounty money was not considered a No cheers g ree t e d th em a provocative e o e d f , h f e o r e o t i e s o m r e . and weary, along the dusty way; and not even the members of the Lincoln de legation who crowded the balconies and doorsteps of Barnum's Hotel to witness the spectacle so much as clapped a hand or waved a handkerchief to wel come the returning braves. Was it because they stuck too closely to their bargain to merit the appro ' bation of the true patriots and able wire..pullers who desire Mr. Lincoln's re-election ? Not so; for there was one portion of these 2,000 men—amount• gwho brought u p th e rear o f he to e n aboutg, thin 50 0 e 1 Who no soon er came w i t hi n i t nr e m 6O e : sight of the Barnum balconies than the suppressed cheers of the Lincoln delegation broke forth, and the hands clapped and the handkerchiefs waved in ay also be ask e d if th ese 50 determined e a r st 6 o o rm h o e f d delight I . t play to return to the battlefield which their comrades had abandoned ? They had not. They were on their way home like the rest, and were about to turn their swords into ploughshares, their s p ears i nto pruning hooks, and to study war no more. Then, of course, their names were familiar to Mr. Lincoln's friends and supporters for their deeds of heroism.? Wrong again. They were merely negro teamsters, waggon-drivers, and trench-diggers, who had borne some of the shock and all the hardships of the campaign, and who received a greeting denied to their white comrades, solely because their skins were black. No one, not hardened by inveterate prejudice, would deny the negro any merit, in peace or war, that was justly his due; but to honour him, independently of his merit, and solely on account of his colour, is quite as much a prejudice as that which formerly held, and in most parts of the country sti) holds, him as a social pariah for the same reason, General Fremont and the Presidency, General Fremont has addressed the following reply to the committee of the Cleveland Conven tion accepting the nomination for President : " Gentlemen —In answer to the letter which I have had the honour to receive from you on the part of the represen tatives of the people assembled at Cleveland on the 31st of May, I desire to express my thanks for the confidence which led them to offer me the honourable and difficult position of their candidate in the approaching Presidential contest. Very honourable, because in offering it to me you act in the name of a great number of citizens who seek above all things the good of their country, and who have no sort of selfish interest in view. Very difficult, because in accepting the candidacy you propose to me I am exposed to the reproach of creating a schism in the party with which I have been identified. Had Mr Lincoln remained faithful to the prin ciples he was elected to defend, no schism could have been created ; and no contest could have been possible. This is not an ordinary election; it is a contest for the right even to have candidates, and not merely, as usual, for the choice among them. Now, for the first time since '76, the question of constitutional liberty has been brought directly before' the people for their serious consideration and vote. The or dinary rights secured under the Constitution and the laws of the country have been violated, and extraordinary powers have been usurped by the Executive. is directly before the people now to say whether or not the principles established by the Revolution are worth maintaining. If, as we have bees taught to believe, those guarantees of liberty which made the distinctive value and glory of our country are, in truth, inviolably sacred, then there must be a protest against the arbitrary violation, which had not even the excuse of necessity. The schism is made by those who force the choice between a shameful silence or a protest against wrong. In such considerations origi nated the Cleveland Convention. It was among its ob jects to arouse the attention of the people to such facts, and to bring them to realise that while we are saturat ing Southern soil with the best blood of the country, in name of Liberty, we have really parted with it at home. To-day we have in the country the abures of a military dictation without its unity of action and vigour of execution; an administration marked at home by disregard of consti tutional rights, by its violation of personal liberty and the liberty of the press, and as a crowning shame, by its aban donment of the right of asylum—a right especially dear to all free nations. Abroad its course has been characterised by A feebleness and want of principle which have misled Euro pean powers, and driven them to a belief that only commer cial interests and personal aims are concerned, and that no great principles are involved in the issue. The admirable conduct of the people, their readiness to make every sacri fice demanded of them, their forbearance and silence under the suspension of everything diet could be suspended, their many acts of heroism and sacrifices, were all rendered fruit less by the incapacity, or to speak more exactly by the per sonal ends for which the war was managed. This incapacity and selfishness naturally produced such results as led the European Powers, and logically enough, to the conviction that the North, with its greatly superior population, its im mense resources, and its credit, will never bo able to recover tha South. Sympathies which should have been with us from the outset of the war were turned against us,and in this way the Administration has done the country a double wrong abroad. It created hostility, or at best, indifference among those who would have been its friends if the real intentions of the peeple could have been better known; while at the same time h neglected no occasion for making the most humiliating concessions. Against this disastrous condition of affairs the Cleveland Convention was a protest. The prin ciples which form the basis of its platform have my unqua lified and cordial approbation, but I cannot so heartily con cur in all the measures which you propose. I do not believe that confiscation extended to the property of all rebels is practicable, and if it were so I don't think it a measure of s nind policy. It is a question belonging to the people themselves to decide, and it is a proper occasion for the exercise of their original and sovereign authority. As a war measure, in the beginning of a revolt, which might be quelled by prompt severity, I understand the policy of confiscation —b u t not as a final measure of re construction after the suppression of an insurrection. In the adjustments which are to follow peace no considerations of vengeance can consistently be admitted. The object of the war is to make permanently secure the peace and happiness of the whole country, and th ere was b ut a s i ng l e element in the way of its attainment. This element of slavery may be considered practically destzoyed in the country, and it needs only your proposed amendment of the Constitution to make its extinction complete, With this extinction of slavery the party divisions created by it have also disappeared ; and if in the history of the country there has ever been a time when the American people, without regard to one or another of the political divisions, were called upon to give solemnly their voice in a matter which involved the safety of the United States, it is assuredly the present time. If the Convention at Baltimore will nominate any man whose past life justifies a well-grounded confidence in his fidelity to our cardinal principles, there is no reason why there should be any divi sion among the really patriotic men of the country. To an 3 such I shall be most happy to give a cordial and active sup.. port. My own decided preference is to aid in this way, and not to be myself a candidate. But if Mr Lincoln should be renominated, as I believe it would be fatal to the country to endorse a policy and renew a power which has cost us the lives of thousands of men, and needlessly put the country on the road to bankruptcy, there will remain no alternative but to organize against him every element of conscientious opposition with the view to prevent the misfortune of his re-election. In this contingency I accept the nomination at Cleveland, and, as a preliminary step, I have resigned my commission in the army. This was a sacrifice it gave me pain to make. But I had for a long time fruitlessly - - endeavoured to obtain service. I wake this sacrifice only to regain liberty of speech, and to leave nothing in the way of discharging to my rtrnost ability the tusk you have set for me. With my earn est and sincere thanks for your expressions of confid ence a nd regard, and for the many honourable terms with which you acquaint me with the actions of tha committee,—l am, gentlemen, very respect- .'ally and truly yours, "New York, June 4," " J, C. FREMONT. Persons in debt may obtain instant protection against imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liabilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankruptcy, Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices— (established 1830), 12, liattoa-garden. City branch -6. Moor gate-street, Bank—Avg -T. ADVERTISEMENTI—HoIIoway's Ointment—All varie- ties of ulcerations, bad legs, sores, wounds, and eruptions can be cured by the diligent use of this cooling, soothing, and healing unguent. The old and often failing fashion of strapping the edger of ulcers together with plaster has en- tirely given way before the more reasonable treatment by Holloway's Ointment, which builds up from the bottom of the wound with sound and healthy granulations ; these gra. dually grow till they reach the level of the surface, then contract, harden, and immediately become covered with a new and wholesome skin. The proper application of this ointment diminishes the inflammation, causes the unhealthy discharge first to grow thick, then to cease, when the swell ing disappears, and the natural shape is restored. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the committee on the East London Railway Bill visited the London Docke, and tcek a ^ it Bey of the site and route of the irkmcied I:aiway, so as to form, in con juuctcr.,,t With the evidence adduced, an opinion on the question. Mr Bendel, the engineer of the London Dock Company, was examined at great length by Mr Phinn, Q.C., and Mr. Karalake, on the engineering objections to the line, and as to the advantages of another proposed line to be subetitnted. Mr Ilawkshaw, the engineer, was sub soluehtly examined, and expressed an opinion adverse to the safety of the Thames Tunnel for railway purposes. Apart from its danger as an experiment, he was of opinion that the price the company would have to pay for the ap propriation of the tunnel would be sufficient to ronatract a new one, Mr Reda4ll, stated the case of the Cannock Chase and Wolverhampton Railway of ten miles between those places, to make arrangements with the Great Western, raise £lOO,OOO, and £34,000 by loan. Mr Merewether and Mr H. Lloyd opposed for the London and North-Western. The committee of which Mr Hassard is chairman con sidered the Bill for the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway, to take additional lands and raise a further sum of S, WU 000. Mr Round having been heatd for landowners in opposition, the committee throw that the Bill. Ferther evidence as to the traffic case connected with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company's pro posed establishment of steamboat communication with the Continent occupied Sir F. Goldsmid's committee all day, The clauses of the Glocester and Ledbury, and Worcester, Dean Forest, and Monmouth Railway Bills were settled. In the tords, the Bill of the London and South-Western for additional works was passed. GREAT EASTERN. The directors of this company have issued a statement to I the shareholders respecting recent proceedings before a committee of the Rouse of Commons on the Great Eastern Northern Junction Bill. The proposed line was intended to start from the Great Eastern line near Cambridge in a northern direction, passing near Peterborough, Bourn, Slea ford, Lincoln, Gainsborough, and Doncaster to Askern, where it would form junctions with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, the North-Eastern system, with the South Yorkshire coalfields, and with the new line from Don `caster to Hull. It would also Join the Midland Railway at Peterborough, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln system at Lincoln, thus forming the most direct access to the Eastern Counties, as well as a large and populous dis trict in the eastern part of the metropolis. The proposed main line and branches were 134 miles in length, and the total cost was estimated at £1,500,000, or less than £12,000 per mile. The gradients throughout were only lin 400, being so favourable as to enable an engine to draw nearly double the load that could be carried over the existing Great Northern Railway between Doncaster and London-400 tons and upwards against 240 tons. It was proposed that the new line should carry the 400 tons at a fart wing per ton per mile, while the rate on the Great Northern for a load of 240 tons was a farthing and a halt per ton per mile. The proposed line would therefore earn 10d per mile at the re duced rate, or £6 Ils 8d per train on a distance of 176 miles, more than would be earned by carrying only 240 tons in a train at three-eighths of a penny per ton per mile. This proposal would have reduced the cost of carriage upon coal by is 4d per ton between Doncaster and the eastern part of London, which was a wholly distinct district of the metro pelis:from that which was reached by the Great Northern at King's-cross, so that there could be no competition for this traffic, as it would cost 2s per ton to bring the coal from the Great Eastern district to that served by the Great Northern, and vice versa. Trio advant,ige of cheap fuel would therefore be entirely confined to the large district served by the Great Eastern, effecting a reduction in the price of coals to the consumer of 3a 44 per ton as com pared with the cost of being compelled to receive their coals from King's-cross, The population of the eastern dis trict was estimated at 600,000 persons, and the probable annual supply of coal by the Great Eastern at 1,000,000 tons. The saving on this commodity alone would have been £166,6'30 as compared with the same amount of coal carried to the same district by the Great Northern route. The statement also referred to the great advantages that would be derived from the proposed direct communication between the Great Eastern agricultural district, served by 600 miles of railway, and the great railways in the manufacturing and mining districts, The scheme of the Great Northern consisted of a connec tion between their loop line at Gainsberough with Doncas !er, so as to establish the route from Doncaster to Peter• borough by the circuitous line via Lincoln, Boston, and Spalding.; and, secondly, by a system of single disjointed loop lines, ostensibly destined for local accommodation, but really devised in order to block up the district and prevent the establishment of a superior direct through route. Taking Cambridge as the common point of concentration to and front the Great Eastern district, the distance to Doncaster by the Great Northern loop line was 17 miles greater than by the proposed line. It was urged that the new line would tend greatly to in crease the profit on the capital of £20,000,000 already ex pended upon the Great Eastern system. It appeared that the committee did not consider it fair towards the Great Northern for the proposed line to a have a maximum fare of one farthing per ton per mile, while the Great Northern required a farthing and a half per ton per mile to pay them. It the Great Northern had the same gradients, well and good ; but as they had not got them and could not got them, except at a very large expehse, the committee thought it right to reject the Great Eastern Northern Junction Bill. But, at the same time, the committee inserted facility clauses in the Great Northern Bills with a view a view to enable Great Eastern Company to run over the lines of the Great Northern Railway to Doncaster, if they thought pro per to do so. The directors state that no amount of facilities could ever give to the Eastern Counties district the advan tages of a line 17 miles shorter, with flat gradients, neither could any amount of facilities give to Central Lincolnshire the advantage of having their district served by a grea through line of railway. They also state that every one con versant with the working of railway traffic was well aware that those facility clauses under such circumstances were neither more nor less than "a mockery, a delusion, and a snare." Tha directors could nat believe that Parliament would finally refuse to sanction a scheme which offered to the public the advantage of the best and cheapest trunk line which had yet been devised between the North of England on the one hand and the Eastern Counties and eastern dis tricts of the metropolis on the other. PERNAIvI bUCO. The adjourned half•yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr B. Benson in the chair. The Secretary having read the notice of adjournment, and also of an extraordinary meeting to be held immedi ately afterwards, The CHAIRMAN said the half-yearly meeting had been adjourned to that day in the hope that something definite in the meantime might Le received from the Government respecting the guarantee, but nothing had been received from the Government in respect of the extension of the guarantee. There had been two mails from Brazil since the half-yearly meeting was held, and they had been informed by their agent that the finance committee of the Chambers, to whom the matter had been referred, had reported in favour of the extension of the guarantee to the company, and the question was now before the Chambers for their sanction. He had therefore nothing further to communicate about the extension of the guarantee, and he would proceed with the extraordinary meeting, which had been convened for the purpose of confirming certain alterations in the deed of settlement which had been agreed to at the last meeting. Ile then moved a formal resolution confirming the altera tions in the 02d clause of the deed of settlement from the Ist of February and the Ist of August of each year, to the 30th of June and the 31st of December in each year, as the dates in future for making up the accounts. The motion was seconded. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to aiinestion, said they could not pay any more interest until they got the money from the Government, or until the Government gave them the increased guarantee. The capital account was now closed, and the directors could not pay the shareholders more than they received. Mr GoEs wished to know whether the guarantee was to be extended in proportion to the increased outlay. He sup posed that the alteration of the dates for making up the ac counts and holding the future meetings of the company was to enable the directors, before holding the meetings, to as certain the dividend due to the shareholders after paying expenses, and to declare it accordingly. The CHAIRMAN said that no amount had been finally fixed, but the Government had agreed to recommend to the Chambers that the guarantee should be extended to £85,000 a year. The matter had been investigated by four Govern ment officers, and the Minister had agreed to lay that amount before the Chambers for its sanction. The Chem bars might reject the proposition or approve it, but the Session would not close until the 7th Sept. next. The alteration of the dates was, as the hon. proprietor supposed, for the convenience of the company. The resoluion was then unanimously adopted. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. Golta, a formal resolution confirming the repeal of the 38th clause of the deed of settlement and authorising the ordinary general meetings of the company to be held in future in the months of April and October of each year was unani mously adopted. In reply to a question, it was stated that one reason for the dividend on the last occalion being only 2} per cent. was that the working expenses had exceeded the receipts, but this was not likely to occur again. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. A HINT TO VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE BENT UPON GOING to COURT.—A s there continues to be a belief that gentlemen have a right to be presented at levees in virtue of their being volunteer officers, we may state positively, and from the best source of information, that no such right exists. Volunteer officers roust be eligible for presentation for other reasons than their volunteer rank. The matter was decided in the spring of 1860,—Court Journal. SPIIUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—In the great crisis at which the country has now arrived it is natural that the leaders of the Opposition should seek to learn the authenticity of every rumour that has reached them; it is equally natural that Ministers, who know how warily they must take every step, Should shrink from utter ing a word which may interfere with the irre vocable decisions any day may require of them. These considerations explain the little debate on the Conference in the House of Commons yesterday, which showed the Coneervative leadere more than usually peremptory, and their Ministerial oppottents quite as evasive es, usual. The truth is that every one who cares to inquire can learn the main inci dents which have marked the last few sittings of the Conference, and the Premier Wile unwilling to enter into details which could hardly be at:panted from an explaeation of the future designs and policy of the Government. We can well admit that it is the duty of an Opposition, when such rumours are abroad, to endeavour to obtain for the country the most complete and truthful information possible; but all that is necessary to be known had already been given to the world in the statement that at the last meeting of the Conference, on Saturday, the British Government, in accordance with the resolu tion come to at the Congress of Paris in 1856, pro posed to refer the disputed boundary between the two German Powers and Denmark to the decision of a friendly arbitrator. It is difficult to conceive a case in which this principle of arbitration might be more fitly applied. As a general rule we have little faith in it. Where there is a clear, definite issue between the two parties—something that both can understand and do perfectlyunderstand—something that touches national honour or national existence— it is of little use to send the matter before an arbitra tor. To think of referringsuch a question as theunion between England and Ireland, or the right of the Federals to invade the Confederates is plainly absurd. The parties would never commit their dearest interests to the judgment of any man or Cabinet; and if they could be brought to consent, it is certain that the party decided against would be irresistibly tempted to repudiate the award. But in this case there is no similar difficulty. It is just such a question as may be examined by a competent authority and fairly solved. It is one of detail, and nothing more. It has been agreed on both sides that the principles which should guide the decision are the prevalence of the Danish or the German population in such and such districts of the Duchy, and the securing of a convenient frontier between the Germanic Confederation and what would then become Denmark Proper. There is nothing in dispute but the nationality and language of certain districts, which can be easily ascertained by inquiry, and the districts then partitioned accordingly. A frontier line capable of serving as a barrier as well ss a limit between the two countries may also be drawn by any Sovereign or statesman who makes himself acquainted with the country. All that is to be dents is to decide how a debatable zone of thirty miles in width, inhabited by a mixed popu lation, shall be disposed of. That any Govern ment should prefer the chance of war to the judgment of an impartial arbitrator on such a question is hardly to be believed. If, however, that should appear to be the case—if Prussia and Austria, which were actually parties at Paris to the enunciation of the principle, reject it on the first occasion that it can be advantageously applied—it will indeed appear that violence and ambition not only bear down the defences of weak States, but re pudiate the humane conclusions at which the great Powers have arrived with regard to the government of Europe. It is said that the proposal of arbitra tion was referred by the respective Plenipotentiaries to their own Governments, and that to-morrow they will annonnce their decision. Tomorrow, then, we are likely to know whether this last chance of peace between the contending p -rties is to prove fortunate. The matter rests principally with Prussia, for it is not likely that Austria, if left alone, will refuse any fair proposition for concluding a war in which she has no direct interest, and the continuance of which exposes her to the gravest dangers. It would be pleasant for us if we could express a confident ex pectation that the German Powers would show themselves wise and moderate at the eleventh hour; but the past behaviour and present temper, of the Prussian people do not encourage a belief that they will yield. There is, it is said, a violent war fever at Berlin, an exultation which is caused by the conquest of Duppel, and which makes those sub ject to it look upon their officers as pre-eminent in skill, their soldiers as models of spirit and courage. While, then, earnestly desiring that better counsels may prevail at Berlin that some memories of international justice and of his own declarations to England six months since may induce M. von Bismark to refrain from the schemes which he has adopted from Bavaria and Saxony, it is-we think time that this country should make up its mind what its course must be if all its overtures are rejected, all its advice despised, and the unhappy people in whose behalf it has acted still remain the victims of German violence and ambi tion. To-morrow the Conference meets—it may be for the last time. Oa Monday next, if in the mean time no ft clogs of humanity or prudence prevail, the war will begin again. On that day, assuredly, new extortions will be made in Jutland, new prepa rations will probably be made for carrying the war into the Islands, and no doubt the first political act of the Allies will beto declare the whole of Schleswig and Holstein permanently severed from the Danish Kingdom and erected into an independent sove reignty by right of conquest. Together with these wrongs to Denmark,there will be a demonstration of defiance and derision towards ourselves. All the patience and courtesy of the last half-year will be ascribed to weakness. The speeches of our states• men, the cheers of our House of Commons, the articles in our newspapers, the manifest sympathy with Denmark evinced by all classes of society will be taken to show that we are earnestly bent on something which the vigour and boldness of the German rulers prevented us from attaining. Nor can we be surprised that foreigners should take such a view when Englishmen can hardly refrain from it themselves. The humiliation and the consciousness of failure which afflict the public mind are the mea sure of the exultation of those whose policy has pre vailed so comp!etelyover our own. No onewho knows whet has passed can fail to see that if this country allows the Danish war to begin again, and to be carved to such an end as the German allies propose, not only a grievous wrong will have been perpe treted in Europe, but ,he just influence of England —an influence always of late years used in defence of freedom and national independence—will be seriously impaired. It is evident from the language, and still more from the reticence, of Ministers that they deeply feel the importance of the present crisis, and are convinced that they can retain power only by upholding the dignity of the country. What their first acts may be we cannot presume to pre dict. But this is plain—that since England in her capacity as a first-class State and a party to the Treaty of 1852 entered into these transactions, and was recognised by the belligerents as having claims and interests of her own, we have now a right to demand the forbearance of the two German Powers. Whether it be prudent or not to interfere at once, whether Schleswig, or a part of it, could be deli -sered by British aid, are political or military ques tions which will require anxious consideration. In the meantime we think that a suspension of diplo matte relations should be the immediate result o: the rejection of our last proposition for peace, There can be no benefit in being represented at Courts which have treated England with such contumely. When this step is taken the Government will be able to determine in what way material effect may bo best given to the protest on which they may have resolved. HERALD.—The House of Commons witnessed a scene last night for which even the most indefati gable searcher into parliamentary history can find no precedent. The members of the house had heard from different sources accounts which, although not official, were apparently authentic, of the proceed ings of the Conference on Saturday. They bad been informed that at that meeting the belligerents maintained pretensions which were utterly irrec.on cileable; that the English Government, aband.otnsig again a position upon which it had professed whichi re solve to take its stand, had made a proposaltu gh no minallywas virtually rejected by all that t in the most represen tatives of the German Powers indulged accepted ad referendum;' ties, and England, unseemly threats against Denmark atihteo-and even announced their intention, in the event of the resumption of the war, to issue letters of marque in defiance of the eng agement not to do so w hi c h they made eight years ago at Paris. The members flocked to the house to ascertain from the responsi ble Ministers of the Crown whether these grave an nouncements were correct. The leader of the Op position rose at the time which th e cus t om o f the house has consecrated to such inquiries, to ask whether the Prussian Minister had made the threat attributed to him, and whether hostilities would recommence on the 26th, in the event of the Conference breaking up on Wednesday. He put his question without any comment; be made no effort to " exploit" the painful situation against the Ministry ; he gave them an opportunity of which men conscious of the rectitude of their conduct and resolved upon their policy would have gladly av a il e d themselves. But t h e 'Ministry were determined not to give any information, and they thought that the best way to refuse it was to keep the Premier out of the house, and pretend that nobody else could answer a question upon such an important subject. The Premier, there fore, was kept out of the house, but in its neigh bourhood, so that if the "dodge" should not answer he could come to the assistance of colleagues who are perfectly helpless when they have to deal with a house, of Commons in a state of agitation. 3,lre Gladstone rose toseeggest that as Mr. Disrael l ' e questions were of consideteele importance he s hould . put them on the paper for to-day. Mr. Disr aeli. replied, amidst the cheers of the home, that he eve 4 justified under the circumstances in asking , them' without notice. Then Mr. Bernal Osborne Wee' vened. That gentleman, in his zeal for his German clients, had been alarmed by the unmeaning re mark of Earl Russell that the fleet was fully pre pared for any services it might be called upon to render. He wanted to know whether those wo,rdee were only another idle threat, or whether the toe, vernment intended to commit the country to a war with Germany. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was unable to offer any explanation. He would not presume to answer such a question. Indeed, he hinted that he knew nothing about the matter, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald observed that Mr. Glad: stone, ac a member of the Cabinet, must know wbee' had taken place on S a tu r day ; and Lord John Manners said that if only one member of the Go' vernment was competent to reply to Bach ques tions he ought to have been present. The ire''' sury Bench had by that time become alarined, The Premier was sent for, and by one of those singular coincid ences i n th e f or t u it ous ness of whi ch children and old women believe, entered the ho use just as Lord J o h n M anners declared, ami dst general cheers, that he ought to have been th ere. The Premier, however, was equal to the oeea m siou ; it had be e n arrange d th a t n o informati on i should be given, and he took care to give n on 0 , He explained, for Mr. Osborne's edification, the significance o f Lord Russell's ; words in words alm o ," identical with th ose emp l oye d b y E ar l Russell it —41,1? fleet will quite equ a l to anyt hi ng t h e G ove rnment ask to do—and he declined, although regret,. to answer Mr. Disraeli's questions. Dero was, it seems, an agreement made—kept we need., net say with great strictness by all artier what passed in Conference should not be Ma u ! . public, and it would therefore be a breach of cee" dence on his part to say what took place in it on Saturday. But he was considerate enough to sq . that, as the suspension of hostilities expires on Su n day next, if it is not prolonged before that Me e ' war will recommence on Monday —a piece of infor mation with great melon which it seems he reconciled it with his duty to the Conference to giv e , a n d f or w hi c h t he Hous e of Commons must have been devoutly thank tu " Such is the fashion i n w hi c h th e G overn ment ven: tures to treat the House of Commons. Althouge the issues of peace or war are now hanging is the balance, and in a few days the country may be committed to a course which may disgrace AL degrade it, or involve it in a gigantic struggle, 41 °,, Ministry refuse to give it s re p re sentatives !ll' slightestinformation, or afford the faintest indication of their 'nteutions. When the mischief is do ne, .when the policy of the c oun t r y i s i rrevo cably deter mined, the suprort of the House of Commons 1214 / be invited. Treatment like this might be brooke d by the house if it could b e li eve th a t t he MinistrYd had really determined upon a c ourse of policy, o . l ' h were unitedly seeking the vindi ca ti o n of Erigl" h . honour and interests; but wh en it i s known, wh en it is matter of as public notoriety as the Pro ceedings of the Conference, that the Cabinet divided, and that one section is anxious for P ec : at any price, whilst another, with a goring sentiment of honour, would pre fer even war to a disgraceful p eace —thi s re fusal 01 all information is intolerable. Th e Ministry trea t the , tarns, and of Commons as if it h a d abdicated its fee% and the House of Com mons , b y it s a pathy , b e e countenanced the impertinent assum ption. But temper of the house and the country may be tried to o ,_ much, and the scene of y e st er d a y w ill be a lesson di! the Premier, if he has riot lost the tact and shre w i d ness which once distinguished him. If be woe not have an ignominious termin a tion to a car ee r . which, with all its great fa u lt s , has been most sue, cessful and most popular, h e mus t d ea l f r ank y with Parliament, and not only deal with it frankly, ' adapt his policy to the s pi r it w hi c h an i ma tes it fle the country. The war betw een D enmar k and Ger many will break out again on Monday, unless the English Government gives the German powers plainly to understand that in that war they seroue: have to contend with England. L e t Austria a n a Prussia understand that, and they will be glad to take that part of Schleswig which Denmark is dis posed to yield. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER-JUNE 18. At this corn exchange to-day there was a small show of wheat, and last week's rates advanced is per qr. Bean s at former prices, No peas at market. Wheat, white 42s 46s Beans,Mazagan..2Ss 3 25 red 38s 42s middle & 5ma11.328 36e Barley Oats .... 2os 25s grey 34s 365 NORTHAMPTON-JUNE 18. White wheat, new, 33s to 40s; new red, 35s to 38s; old. 36s to 40s per qr. Barley, new malting, 34s to 368-- grinding, 268 to 33s per qr. Oats, 19s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, 34s to 36,. Peas, 32s to Hs per qr. GLOUCESTER-JUNE 18. There was a fair supply of English wheat to-day from, the farmers, which sold readily at the extreme prices of last week. Foreign wheat in more ge nera l d e mand, with out change in value. Barley, beans, and oats were un altered. CHELMSFORD—JuicE 17. We had a fair show of wheat on offer at this market to-day, and the trade was firm at is over last week's prices for best sorts, but not much doing. Spring corn slow, and prices the same as last week. Wheat, old white 30s 45s new 43s 47s old red Us 37s new 36s 40s Barley 25s 33s Chevalier —26B 36s Grinding 20s 28s Malt.... Chevalier 64s 68s Oats ..20s 26s Peas, Partridge.... s 36s 339 White .......... 30s 3 45 Boilin g • ...... 38s 42s Dun............ 31s 35$ Ditto new ...... --s -- - s Beans, Tick, old ..34s 36sa new.. Harrow Ticks ..34s 36s Mazagan ..... "285 335 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—JUNE is. We had fair suppli es o f a ll ki n d s o f grain at 111- rket to-day, which sold a t th e pr i ces o f l as t wee k, with the ,„ ception of oats, 6d per qr up. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First.... 34e Od I 24s Od 17s Od Second ..36sOd 26s 6d l l7s 64 Third ....38a Od —a Od 19s 6d Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 6.uatralia and. auritius, via Southampton....... June 14. via Marseilles ......... July . ....... e , Arazil and Capo Vertls, by British pack t July n 2:, , Capo of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Ju ne Chum, Penang, and Sin ga p ore , v i a S ou th am pton. June ;7' via Marseilles ...June 27. ... ... ._ . ..... _........_ Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. June :-. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, v i a S ou th am pton. . 27. • via Marseilles.... une India (Bombay), via Southampt on Jun e 25. via Marseille s .... July 5. Portugal.... E.. . . July 5 . Malta,gypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... "' lle ---. --via Marseilles ........ Ju l y 5 Newfoundland .. Jun e 22. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... • Juli e 30 ' . . . ..une. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Tune 24. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, l ' eru ' 1 June 28. California. and British C01umbia............ RATHER A SHARP FROST. —During the last winter the Niagara Falls are said to have been completely frozen over, for the first time Where memory of man. F o r 24 hours it was safe walking usually flowed au im petuous flood. Births. 114. cox.—On the 19th inst., at 69, Gloucester-terrace , H y d e -park, the wife of W. M. Bacon, Esq., of a son. Hci th ß o A Charles°ilth WRAE.—On the 18th hut , at Croydon, Mrs. Jas. "tee' of a son. e EltwharindsHt Hobart, t rt 7 o im f a bl s e o d n o . n, the wife of Marriage& PRILLirs—FLOUR,—On the 18th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, William James Phillips, son of Wak Phillips, Esq., of 61, Bel rave-road to Ellen Flp tic, daughter of th e l a t e Henry Scott Floud, Esq., of Withi combo House, Devon. WALBII.—FE4RERS.—On the 15th inst., a t Chiddingstone, Kent, Frederick Henry Walsh, Esq., late Cap Highlanders, to the Right Hon. Augusta Annabe lla, Countess Ferrers. tain 78th Deaths. CURETON.—On the 17th inst., at his residence, Westbury, Shropshire, the Rev. William Cureton, D.D., canon of Westminster, and rector of St. Margaret's, aged 66. CHITTENDEN.-011 the 19th inst., Andrew Chittenden , Esq., of 12, St. John's-terrace, Regent's-park, formerly of Bolney, Sussex, aged 75. DRAPER.-00. the 17th inst., at Silver-street, Enfield , Mr. Henry Draper, aged 80. ERBKINE.—On the 18th inst., at 108, Gloucester -place , Portman-square, Henry 1). Erskine. eldest son of the late Hon. Henry David Erskine, Dean of Ripon. LANCE. ---On the 18th inst., at Sunniside, New Brighton, Cheshire, George Lance, El., of Osnaburgh-terraes , Regent's -park, aged 62. SCHOLEFIELD.—On the 16th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, Joshua, second surviving son of the late Joshua Sch ole - field, Esq , aged 53. London : Printed and Prblished by WILLIAM of No. 112, Strand, Printer at THE SUN Office No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of , the 3avoy, n th e Coup' ir of Alitlfllesez—Tneedey, June 21,186}. ANDREXS